Key Democrats working closely on the nomination process tell The Daily Beast that the president is expected to announce the Hagel selection Monday or Tuesday. These sources also say Obama did not decide on Hagel until this week, after weighing Ash Carter, the current deputy secretary of defense, and Michèle Flournoy, a former No. 3 at the Pentagon, for the job.

Hagel has a lot of high-profile support, including the ad hoc Bipartisan Group, which very publicly sent this letter to Pres. Obama:

Then again, as the Daily Beast notes, there’s also significant opposition to Hagel: